The second round of the Macedonian First League was marked with the interesting opening derby match between Rabotnicki and Makedonija in which the points were shared with a 3:3 draw, despite Makedonija had the lead and a player more during big part of the match.
Saturday’s internationals performances
Busy Saturday for the Macedonian internationals. While Pance Kumbev and Vlade Lazarevski faced eachother in Poland, Orhan Mustafi scored twice in his debut for Basel, Goran Maznov netted once for Tom’, Sakiri once too but for Qarabagh and Igor Mitreski, Oka Nikolov and Nikolce Noveski advanced in the next round of the German Cup. England,
Macedonian squad for friendly v Luxembourg
Srecko Katanec, the coach of the Macedonian national team, announced the 18-men squad for the friendly match against Luxembourg for the final preparations before the WC 2010 qualifications.
Aco Stojkov escaped from Norway
The 25-years-old Macedonian forward spent only a day on trials with the Norwegian club Aalesunds FK and today he surprisingly decided to leave Norway, despite some media already reported that he signed a contract with the club.
At least one win from Scotland and Holland
Srecko Katanec, the coach of the Macedonian team expects three points from the two opening matches for the WC 2010 qualifications against Scotland and Holland that will be played in September.
Robert Stambolziev called up by Australia
Six months ago MacedonianFootball.com wrote about Robert Stambolziev, the great talent at Bristol City FC who has big wish to play for Macedonia, but the Football Federation of Macedonia didn’t take any action and now he’s called up by Australia. The Bristol City youngster born in Australia but with Macedonian origin, has been invited to
Round 1 completed
In the last match of the first round, Milano have defeated newcomers Metalurg with 2-1. Thus, the first round of the 17th football championship is now completed. Makedonija Gjorche Petrov are the table-leaders.
Macedonia ranked 54th by FIFA
According to the August 2008 FIFA/Coca Cola World Ranking list, Macedonia moved up for 2 position on the ranking and is now placed on the 54th position.
Bashkimi’s fans want football
Bashkimi’s fans group ‘Iliret’ have sent an announcement to the media and the football federation of Macedonia regarding the latest situation with the club. They are asking for postponing of the matches from the first football league.
Macedonian internationals performances
Riste Naumov scored for Viktoria ikov, Goce Toleski got injured playing for Slavia Praha, Goran Maznov continued his poor goalless form at Tom’, while Goran Stanik made his debut for East Fife.